Here's a desparate and unimaginative surefire way of grabbing some publicity for your Internet-distributed PC game: make it extremely controversial and hope the tabloids bite. This, I'm sure, is the reasoning behind Drug Overlord a strategy shooter in which you must protect your illicit plantation against waves of government forces. From today's press release:
"...as your crop yields get higher and your weapons more sophisticated the federalies will be bringing all kinds of mean and nasty tanks, troopers, and arial assaults. Only a skilled marksman and a smart businessman will be able to survive the onslaught."
I think there may well be a decent 'serious game' to be made here, perhaps looking into the morally fraught domain of Afghanistan's opium industry, but then that wouldn't provoke the required tabloid knee-jerk.
Well okay, developer Shoot First Games has exhibited a kind of twisted genius in combining Harvet Moon with Redneck Rampage, but its probably not something that should be enouraged.
